Federal bidding software for construction contractors. Qualify SAM.gov opportunities before you spend a week on them, read the solicitation and its FAR clauses with citations, price the work against your own cost data, and write a proposal that answers the evaluation criteria in the order they are written.
A commercial hard bid asks one question: what is your number. A federal solicitation asks a hundred, and getting any of them wrong can make the rest irrelevant. Is the work set aside for a socioeconomic category you hold? Is your NAICS code and size standard right? Can you bond it? Have you registered in SAM and is the registration current? Did you acknowledge every amendment? Does your proposal answer Section M in the order Section M asks, or does it answer the questions you wished had been asked?
BidcoreAI treats that as a qualification problem before it treats it as an estimating problem. The free Go/No-Go Analyzer — connect your own SAM.gov API key and it costs nothing — scores an opportunity across twelve criteria: set-aside match, NAICS and size standard, contract value against your bonding capacity, geography, past performance relevance, competition profile, schedule feasibility and the compliance load the solicitation carries. Pursuing the wrong federal job costs a week of estimator time and the pursuit you did not make instead, so a fast, honest no is worth more than most tools sold on their yes.
For the opportunities you do pursue, the platform reads the solicitation the way it reads any other document set — completely, with citations. Statement of work, drawings, specifications, wage determinations, FAR and agency-supplement clauses, and the evaluation criteria in Sections L and M. Liquidated damages, insurance and bonding requirements, schedule constraints and unusual clauses come out with page references, so your risk position is written down before you commit rather than discovered at award.
Estimating and bidding then run as they do for any project: quantities measured off the drawings, priced against your own cost data, packaged to subcontractors, levelled. What is different is the output. A federal proposal is graded against stated criteria by evaluators who read many of them, and the proposal generator drafts to that structure — answering the criteria in order, carrying the assumptions from the priced estimate, and keeping the technical narrative and the price consistent with each other.
From an opportunity notice you have not read yet to a submitted proposal.
A twelve-criterion score on an opportunity, free, before any estimating time is spent.
The whole package read, not the parts there was time for.
Clause-level review with citations, because the clauses are the contract.
The requirements that change your cost base rather than your paperwork.
The same measurement and pricing engine the rest of the platform runs on.
Written to the evaluation criteria, in the order the solicitation states them.
Everything commercial bidding needs, plus the parts that only exist in federal work.
Twelve-criterion opportunity scoring using your own SAM.gov API key, with no card and no account tier required.
Opportunity notices, attachments and amendments pulled in and analysed rather than downloaded and skimmed.
Clause-level extraction of risk and compliance obligations with a page citation on every finding.
Sections L and M parsed into a structure the proposal is then written against, criterion by criterion.
Each amendment compared against the previous package, with changes listed and acknowledgement tracked.
Davis-Bacon classifications and fringe rates applied to the labor in the estimate, not bolted on afterwards.
The same takeoff engine as the rest of the platform, measuring the solicitation drawing set.
Estimates on your own cost data, coded to CSI divisions, in the format federal price volumes expect.
Packages and ITBs with flow-down requirements attached, plus small-business participation tracking.
Technical and price volumes drafted from the estimate, answering the evaluation criteria in stated order.
Submission requirements, formats, page limits and deadlines tracked as a checklist rather than remembered.
Estimates, unit price schedules and comparisons exported in the formats agency bid forms ask for.
The uniform contract format, read in full — including the sections that decide how you are scored.
Barracks, VA facilities, base infrastructure, federal buildings and civil works.
The first step is the one that saves the most money, and it is free.
The biggest gain is in the pursuits you decide not to make.
Qualifying an opportunity in an hour instead of pursuing it for a week is the highest-return change available to a federal bidder, and it is the one nobody sells.
Clause-level review that used to happen on the large pursuits happens on all of them, because it now costs minutes.
Answering Section M in the order it is written is unglamorous and is what separates a scored proposal from a well-written one that lost.
Applying Davis-Bacon classifications to the labor lines rather than adjusting at the end is what makes the price volume defensible.
Every amendment compared and acknowledged, so nothing is priced against a superseded package and no acknowledgement is missed.
Scoring opportunities consistently turns federal work from an occasional gamble into a portfolio you can actually manage.
Most estimating software treats federal work as commercial work with more paperwork. It is not.
The Go/No-Go Analyzer is free and needs no card, because the no-bid decision should not be behind a paywall.
FAR and agency clauses extracted with page references, so risk is a written position rather than a memory of reading it.
Proposals drafted against the stated evaluation criteria in order, which is how they are actually graded.
Davis-Bacon classifications and fringes carried into the labor lines rather than added as an adjustment.
Priced from your own history, in the CSI structure federal price volumes and government estimates use.
The federal bidding guide and the federal bidding articles cover the process end to end.
Federal sets are large and the deadlines are fixed. Estimators working in this same platform will measure the solicitation drawings, price the work against your cost data and Davis-Bacon rates, and return a priced estimate with a marked-up set and a written basis of estimate.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
The Go/No-Go Analyzer is free and takes minutes. Run it on the solicitation currently sitting in your inbox.
